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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to Linux Phones@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months ago

Corporations always pick on poor countries

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Corporations always pick on poor countries

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  • Feyter@programming.dev
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    Can someone explain, why are those countries more effected by this than others?

    • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPM
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      They will be the first test-tube countries before this rolls out globally in 2027.

      • Dagnet@lemmy.world
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        Great, now I’m a guinea pig

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    What happened here…

    • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPM
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      Delay in posting my one comment.

      • BottleBoardBakon@lemmy.ml
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        Ah, I see like 7 comments you’d posted that all got deleted

        • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPM
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          Latency is one hell of a drug.

  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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    Singapore? Poor?

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      Yeah, but read it again. This isn’t Singapore. It’s Singpore. They so broke they can’t afford the A, LOL.

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        Must be a knock off. Singapore’s all about getting those A’s.

        • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPM
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          Singapore has the ultimate Asian parent stories.

    • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPM
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      Pre-1960 they had to sing to stop being poor.

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  • erebion@news.erebion.eu
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    Capitalism. shrugs

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    Well except for Singapore.

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  • RockBottom@feddit.org
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    Will poor countries ever learn?

    • H Ramus@piefed.social
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      Ah yes, Singapore famously cheap and poor at over $100k GDP per capita.

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        Yeah Singapore was the first British colony where average income exceeded Great Britain.

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      What was their alternative? Android phones are cheap and accessible (at least they were)

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      It’s more so the manufacturers than poor hard working citizens of the global south.

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    is this different from the needing to wait 24 hours to install unverified apps thing? Cuz that already rolled out to my old ass Galaxy Note 9 this past week and I’m not in (nor is the phone from) any of those countries

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